For Peter Sokolowski, a high-profile event like the 9/11 attacks or the 2012 vice-presidential debate is not just news. It’s a “vocabulary event” that sends readers racing to their dictionaries. For ...

For decades, scholars at the University of Chicago have sought to preserve and share the languages of South Asia and the Middle East—from Assamese to Torwali, Khowar to Pashto. In this work, the ...

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Cherokee Nation Deputy Chief Bryan Warner speaks about the tribe’s new Cherokee Language Dictionary app during a celebration event with the app’s developers. (Photo/Cherokee Nation) Cherokee Nation ...

Under the auspices of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and in collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Technical University in Darmstadt, a long-term project ...

Spell check, Google and Dictionary.com do the job of a well-thumbed reference book. As we cleaned out the newsroom in preparation for the move to new digs on Warren Street, the dictionaries began to ...

Macmillan Education said Monday it will cease publishing a print edition of its dictionaries, following other publications into an online-only format as print sales decline. Final editions of the ...

Every so often, dictionaries spruce up their database of lexicography in order to get with the times. Dictionary.com is no different, and announced this week the new additions to the website’s catalog ...